oatmealMar 23, 2025

Quoting Dror Mishani:

[...] The main price for the dehumanization we have inflicted on the Palestinian people has been and continues to be paid by tens of thousands of Palestinians who have been killed since the beginning of the war, and hundreds of thousands who have been wounded and uprooted from their homes and lives. But yes, it is now also clear—as a few of us have warned over the years—that we are also paying for it with our lives, and we will pay even more dearly. We have come to terms with the violence of the state, and after October 7th, many of us even encouraged it—and now this violence has spiraled out of control. And violence that rages out of control burns everything.

* Dror Mishani is an Israeli crime writer, translator, and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction.

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-03-23/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000195-beb5-d093-afd7-bebd3d8a0000 or https://archive.ph/yjAn8

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Show threadoatmealSep 19, 2024

Quoting Hanin Majadli: "Israel is the Jungle" [*]

[...] "An impressive achievement"? This is not an impressive achievement, this is a terrorist attack. Terrorism is the use of violence against a civilian population to achieve a political goal and sow fear and panic. In other words, what #Israel has been doing all the time, throughout its existence, mainly against Palestinians. And that's what Israel did and continues to do in the Gaza Strip over the past year, and in general in its violent history with the Palestinians.

[...] The almost unanimous and blind agreement within Jewish society that if you are physically close to a member of a terrorist organization [Hezbollah's military wing, O.M.], your head is automatically on the chopping block, even if you're an eight-year-old child with no other considerations, is repulsive. It's worth reminding those who think this way that in both Zionist history and its ongoing present, Jewish underground movements have smuggled arms under children's playgrounds and hospitals and fought from within civilian populations. In Israel, military bases and facilities are embedded in the heart of residential neighborhoods. Does this mean it's permissible to bomb them? According to Israeli logic, yes.

[*] paraphrasing Ehud Barak's metaphor, it's Israel who's lawless pariah state, not the other way around

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2024-09-19/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000192-05b4-daa2-abfe-47fe69d00000 or https://archive.ph/bB8T0

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